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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neutrals expect some sort of a blow from the Allies within the next few days," said the Boersen Zeitung. "No one knows just where it will occur but all agree that the matter already has been decided and that the Allies will trample all neutral rights...
...Humbug." A sort of Transcendentalist Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Fuller was No. 1 feminist writer of her day. She edited the highbrow Dial, and as Horace Greeley's first columnist ranked next to Poe as literary critic. But she is not remembered for her writing. What survives is curiosity about her personality. Biographer Wade, 26-year-old publisher's editor and book reviewer, will not satisfy the curiosity of more exacting readers, but his biography is well organized and readable. To Margaret Fuller's credit is Emerson's doting praise, many another Transcendentalist's compliments...
...head of the fraternity's ministry of propaganda, in an official announcement a half an hour later, denied that damage of any sort had been inflicted. "Heil Compton," the telephone commentator added...
...According to the best local information, Adolf Hitler has 36 divisions massed in this section of the front, including shock troops and mechanized units. . . . The present arrangement of his forces seems to indicate that he planned a sort of crack-the-whip movement, pivoting on the Luxembourg corner and sweeping through Holland and Belgium...
...audience with "Howdy, evvabuddy," warms evvabuddy's heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin' but a Gay Lombardo"-to which Master of Ceremonies Joe Kelly, to make sure everyone got it, rejoined: "You mean a gay Lothario...